That said, if you remember when GEICO was only for actual government employees, and when the Slovenian Community Credit Union required appropriate ancestry, you will perhaps be amused by a single provider plan which could, I think, result from executive vigor (if only we had a vigorous executive...) with no tiresome legislative hoorah-ing.

Thusly:

The VA medical system (now very well thought of, believe it or not...) announces that it will sell access, at the underwriting cost plus 10% (the profit to be used to reduce premium cost to actual veterans) to anyone who is a family member of a veteran, or a friend of one (as shown by the ability to provide the name of a veteran, dead or alive).

I bet this would put the parasitic health insurers (you give them your dollar, they pay your doctor 80 cents and require several full time office assistants just to fill out their forms--creating value how, exactly?) in the ground in a quick hurry. I think they call it competition, or the free market, or something.

Plus, as the number of actual veterans dwindles, facilities are closing imposing real hardships and reducing the economies of scale which would be restored by opening up the system to "Friends and Family"

Kind of like GM used to do when they offered employee discounts to any fool with the jones for a hummer...

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Can this be true? If so, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, perhaps, for those of us three or more years too young for Medicare, but unemployed and now off Cobra's list. Is this real? Or just an idea?

This is a fascinating read. Justice Stephan Johnson Fields is on the top of the list. You will never guess who else has made the list.

Citizens United ruling took some basis from a descent by Fields that corporations are people. This article gives an incite into this man and four others that probably should not have been on the bench.

I cannot believe that a U.S. president would ever try to interfere with the elections of a sovereign nation, right fellow libs?? :) From the link:

"[The President] can't say he has a business-like relationship or that it isn't personal when his entire political machine, virtually, some of the top people in his political operation, were in Israel on the ground trying to defeat Netanyahu, which is unprecedented," Rubio said of Obama on Tuesday in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

"He didn’t send anyone in any other country to try to influence the outcome of those elections," Rubio, a potential 2016 contender, added.

He has been busy in Iowa stumping and is back in Maryland to meet with supporters.

O’Malley is aggressively trying to position himself as a progressive and forward-looking alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the presumptive frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, who could make her candidacy official as early as next month.

There has been a dispute about a rock formation that is in the way of a new highway in Iceland It is believed to be an elf church. The Lord of the Rings is based on this mythology. The people of Iceland takes this seriously.